Panevėžys diocese
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| Country | Lithuania |
| Metropolitan bishopric | Archdiocese of Vilnius |
| Diocesan bishop | Genadijus Linas Vodopjanovas OFM |
| Emeritus diocesan bishop | Jonas Kauneckas |
| founding | 1926 |
| surface | 13,000 km² |
| Dean's offices | 9 (2018) |
| Parishes | 111 (2016 / AP 2017 ) |
| Residents | 381,000 (2016 / AP 2017 ) |
| Catholics | 314,000 (2016 / AP 2017 ) |
| proportion of | 82.4% |
| Diocesan priest | 84 (2016 / AP 2017 ) |
| Religious priest | 4 (2016 / AP 2017 ) |
| Catholics per priest | 3,568 |
| Friars | 8 (2016 / AP 2017 ) |
| Religious sisters | 62 (2016 / AP 2017 ) |
| rite | Roman rite |
| Liturgical language | Lithuanian |
| cathedral | Christ the King Cathedral Panevėžys |
| Website | panevezys.lcn.lt |
The Panevėžys diocese ( Latin : Dioecesis Panevezensis , lit. Panevėžio vyskupija ) is a diocese in northeastern Lithuania and part of the Roman Catholic Church in Lithuania .
history
The diocese is a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Vilnius and was due to published on April 4, 1926 Apostolic Constitution of Pope Pius XI. founded. This regulated the adjustment of the administrative borders of the Roman Catholic Church in the Baltic States to the political borders of the time. After the diocese of Panevėžys was separated from the diocese of Samogitia on April 6, 1926 (together with the diocese of Kaišiadorys ), it has belonged to the ecclesiastical province of Vilnius since October 1926.
On May 8, 1997, a sub-area of the Panevėžys diocese was also separated off in order to rebuild the diocese Šiauliai to the west .
Dean's offices
The diocese is divided into the following deaneries :
Anykščiai , Biržai , Krekenava , Kupiškis , Panevėžys, Pasvalys , Rokiškis , Utena , Zarasai
Ordinaries
Cathedral of Christ the King in Panevėžys
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- Kazimieras Paltarokas , bishop 1926–1957
- Julijonas Steponavičius , Auxiliary Bishop 1955–1957, Apostolic Administrator until 1960
- Paulius Šidlauskas , Apostolic Administrator 1961
- Povilas Bakšys , Apostolic Administrator 1962–1969
- Romualdas Krikščiūnas , Apostolic Administrator 1969/1973–1983
- Liudvikas Povilonis , Apostolic Administrator 1983–1984
- Kazimieras Dulksnys , Apostolic Administrator 1984–1989
- Juozas Preikšas , Apostolic Administrator 1989–1991, Bishop 1991–2002
- Jonas Kauneckas , bishop from 2002 to 2013
- Lionginas Virbalas SJ , Bishop from 2013 to 2015, then Archbishop of Kaunas
- Genadijus Linas Vodopjanovas OFM , since 2016
